Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients

Gemini: A grassland model simulating the role of plant traits for community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Parameterization and evaluation

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Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

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Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

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More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

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The role of plant traits and their plasticity in the response of pasture grasses to nutrients and cutting frequency

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Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

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When does local spatial structure hinder competitive coexistence and reverse competitive hierarchies?

(2010) David J. Murrell   ECOLOGY

Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function

(2010) Ian T. Carroll et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a unification of unified theories of biodiversity

(2010) Brian J. McGill   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

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Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The twelve theories of co-existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored

(2010) J. Bastow Wilson   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

A meta-analysis of species-abundance distributions

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Experimental demonstration of the importance of competition under disturbance

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Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals

(2009) Hélène Morlon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species

(2009) Vincent Maire et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Defining and measuring ecological specialization

(2009) Vincent Devictor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time

(2008) Brent C. Emerson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

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